Christopher Thompson

As a kid: I grew up with an insatiable thirst for information, with a personality design that desperately wanted to understand everything and how it works. School found me laboring in anguish challenged with a "learning difference" that bored me to distraction. They way most of the teachers taught was (for the lack of a better word) flat... two dimensional where my brain processes differently. This "cookie cutter" educational system mismatch kept my academic career stifled, while increasing my frustrating quest for knowledge. I am no "Good Will Hunting" but that is the way I had to learn, self-educating was my greatest practice and relief from the “classroom withdrawals”. My Father, may he rest in peace, was patiently motivated enough to explore and discover that although my IQ scored in the high 180's, (that short of changing the school systems teaching methods), he would have to leave me to my own devices as I learned what input format worked best for me. A.D.D. and A.D.H.D., as well as the many other learning differences were barely understood then, and still have the stigma of “disorder” rather than simply being thought of as a different operating system… it was like I was using Mac and the public schools were using Microsoft. As I grew up: Struggle I did, in one form or another, but regretting nothing. I learned too truly understand gratitude, regret doesn't fit in your life. Always thirsty for knowledge, I traveled to dozens countries, using my optical/auditory gathering gifts, I observed the worlds many teaching moments, characters, and cultures. Having the knowledge quest while constructing my own style of learning around the world and at home allowed me to develop a broad observation, intuition, and personal insight skillset. While always present, were my mother’s love, support and advisement. She gifted me with the guidance discovered throughout her lifelong study, practice, and understanding of life’s many wisdoms, both old and new. Early on my parents had divorced and my father strong-armed our custody while in the process, somewhat estranging my mother (thats when I learned parents are human too). Down the road, forgiving my father and finding my mother, I grew to understand her, she became a driving source of inspiration and the human model that reflected what I wanted to become. As crazy as my life would get, she was (and still is) both the compass and the definition of how I find “home”. Recently: Living in a commercialized world that typically rewards on "Traditional Credential-ized Intelligence" I dove in and out of entrepreneurial efforts of interest, some inspired, and some just to financially survive. Then by chance, accident, or transcendental delivery, I found myself jobless and starving not for food, but for purpose. Then "it" arrived like an anchor landing on my head, and I couldn't get away from it (it being the purpose, backstory, and reason for this project and blog). At first I felt as though I would drown, but like my many challenges before, I learned to swim, and made it to the shore of our new reality and the startling discovery that we will all soon understand. After a twenty year journey of exploring and creating, dreaming and dredging in "jobs" and some inspired "careers" I have found my life’s true purpose. A passionate purpose that lends me no doubt or pause but delivers a confidence that even if I fall short of my efforts ultimate success, my colossal ambition will be quenched by the pride in each and every finite moment of my life spent trying. Sadly, with the way our present commercial system works, funding is very difficult to procure, so a lot of todays efforts are primarily looking for support, rather than the important changes that need to happen NOW, and the public's education seems to be stifled by the "business as usual" past times, most of us are guilty of. The strangest thing about all of this is that we sit at the edge of a fantastic opportunity. The industrial revolution, the gold rush, all of our historical "great moments" in time pale in comparison to the epic potential of our situation, both on a financial gain standpoint as well as the greater good. I have plenty well conceived plans/ideas, but no funding for them. Believe me or not, I will share either way.